To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

All that materializes dematerializes.

Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just something that's a cleansing of the mind.